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Hot Projects: Week of September 23
Check out this week’s Hot Projects that include awesome volunteer opportunities with AIDS Walk, Livable Buckhead and Easter Seals of North Georgia!
Fernbank Volunteer Orientation
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 From 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM (Druid Hills)
Parklane Elementary Discovery is a Saturday morning tutoring program that offers one-on-one and small group enrichment activities for at-risk children. Volunteers lead activities and help with reading and math skiWe are currently recruiting new volunteers to join us in a variety of roles within the museum as part of our Adult Volunteer group. Volunteering with us is a great way to meet new people while giving valuable time to an important cultural institution in Atlanta. There is a position for every personality and age, with opportunities such as Greeter, Film Attendant, forest restoration volunteer, exhibit facilitator, Animal Care volunteer, and more.
Discovery @ Parklane
Saturday, September 28, 2019 From 9:45 AM - 12:00 PM (East Point)
Parklane Elementary Discovery is a Saturday morning tutoring program that offers one-on-one and small group enrichment activities for at-risk children. Volunteers lead activities and help with reading and math skills for students in kindergarten through 5th grades. Volunteers who speak Spanish are especially needed.
Atlanta Parent Magazines-Family Fest
Saturday, October 5, 2019 From 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Chamblee)
Easterseals North Georgia is the beneficiary for the Family Festival and needs help with activities in the festival with crafts and activities. Easter Seals strengthens families and children at the times most critical to a child's development. We work with families that are economically challenged, that have children that need extra help in the areas of learning, mental health development, and special needs. We are the states largest "inclusive" early education provider. Volunteers can stay and play after their shift. Volunteers are needed to help with arts & crafts, games and more.
AIDS Walk
Wednesday, September 25 - Tuesday October 1, Various Shifts (Midtown)
AIDS Walk Atlanta & 5K Run continues to raise much needed funds for AIDS Service Organizations throughout the metro-Atlanta area. These organizations provide essential programs and services for men, women, and children who are infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS. All funds stay local in the metro-Atlanta area and have been saving and transforming lives. Volunteers are need before and after the walk to help with sorting supplies, packing, loading, set-up, breaking down and unloading.
Bike Bazaar / Bike in Movie: Hocus Pocus
Thursday, October 3, 2019 From 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Buckhead)
Livable Buckhead is turning October into Biketober. To kick it off right, we're going to a have a little Hocus Pocus. Bike (or walk..or even ride MARTA) over to Marie Sims Park as we screen this '90's Halloween classic. We will have food trucks from the The Street Food Coalition. The Grand Bike Bazaar will be a collection of bike-oriented vendors, services, and advocacy organizations popping up to get Buckhead in gear for Biketober. We are in need of a few dedicated volunteers to assist with our event. Volunteers will help with setup, greeting volunteers, directing visitors and assisting with cleanup.
Hands On Atlanta Week 2019 | Service Guide
Saturday, Oct. 5-12, 2019, we’ve rallied the Atlanta community for a week of good with a goal to engage 10,000 ATLiens! Wondering what to expect, where you can pitch in, what’s all the excitement all about?! We’ve got all your questions (and more) covered in our 2019 Hands On Atlanta Week Service Guide.
It’s no secret, Atlanta sets the standard for civic engagement, it’s in our DNA. Our history is full of people and organizations who weren’t afraid to stand for making things better; which built the Atlanta we have today.
So, on Oct. 5 - 12, 2019, we’re rallying the Atlanta community - companies, nonprofits, community partners, events, and our network of changemakers - to help live Atlanta’s legacy. The best part? We want you and 10,000 ATLiens to join in for a week of good!
Here’s how you can get involved:
Volunteer
Thanks to our incredible sponsors, like Delta Air Lines, our nonprofit and community partners, there are a bunch of ways you can volunteer during Hands On Atlanta Week! When I say a bunch, I mean literally hundreds of ways. Check out these featured projects happening on Saturday Oct. 5:
1 Million Meal Pack with the Atlanta Hawks and State Farm!
Sign up as a Support Staff volunteer for this Signature Hands On Atlanta Week Kick-Off project and help 5,000 volunteers pack 1,000,000 meals for Atlanta families!
48in48
Sign up to use your creative talents for good and help 48in48 build 48 websites for 48 nonprofits in a 48 hour hack-a-thon for good!
The Race Half Marathon and 5K
Sign up to help this unique and community focused road race where runners pass through Atlanta, GA's historical Westside neighborhoods!
Click the button below to explore ALL of the volunteer opportunities happening on our calendar the week of Oct. 5 - 12, 2019.
Do Something Good
Hands On Atlanta Week is about civic engagement and getting as many ATLiens as we can (with a goal of 10,000!!) out in the community doing something good.
Beltline Pop Up
On your stroll down the Beltline’s East Side trail on Saturday, Oct. 5, stop in the Beltline Center and help assemble STEAM kits that will be donated back to students at our partner schools!
Host/Attend a Civic Dinner
This October, Civic Dinners will launch The Lovable City conversation in 100 cities across the United States. Join residents and civic leaders as they gather around the dinner table to co-create a better future for their city.
Answer College and Career Readiness Questions
Sign up for CareerVillage.org and help students get advice on their next step. You can help students at your convenience from anywhere! Click here to get started.
Live on Purpose
Sign up to get weekly notifications from Purposity and help support needs in our local community from verified nonprofits. If you want to help, it takes less than a minute! Click here to learn more.
But wait, there’s more…
Looking for some issue education and to learn more about some of the challenges facing our community and the solutions to solve them? Check out these must attend happenings around town during Hands On Atlanta Week.
Attend the Center for Civil and Human Rights
Click here to get exclusive $12 tickets to the Center for Civil and Human Rights during the entire Hands On Atlanta Week!
Attend the Inaugural Human Rights Film Festival at Morehouse
Check out (or volunteer with) the Human Rights Film Festival at Morehouse on Oct. 10-12. Experience film submissions from across the globe, right here in the heart of Atlanta! Click here to learn more.
Attend Atlanta Pride and Festival
Oct. 11-13, the Atlanta Pride Committee will host the annual Atlanta Pride parade and festival to support the LGBTQ community. Show your pride and them serve as an advocate of and resource to gender and sexually diverse communities in Atlanta. Click here to learn more.
For a full list of volunteer opportunities, community and corporate partners, visit www.handsonatlantaweek.org. We’d love it if you shared Hands On Atlanta Week with your network and we’ve made it really easy for you. Click here to check out our marketing toolkit and thank you for sharing!
Hot Projects: Week of September 9
Check out this week’s Hot Projects that include awesome volunteer opportunities with Hands On Atlanta Discovery, CHaRM and Truly Living Well!
Discovery Program @ Parklane Elementary
Saturday, September 14, 2019 From 9:45 AM - 12:00 PM (East Point)
Parklane Elementary Discovery is a Saturday morning tutoring program that offers one-on-one and small group enrichment activities for at-risk children. Volunteers lead activities and help with reading and math skills for students in kindergarten through 5th grades. Volunteers who speak Spanish are especially needed.
West Atlanta Watershed Alliance 2nd Service Saturdays
Saturday September 14 From 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM (Southwest Atlanta)
This program facilitated provides the opportunity for youth 10 years and older to participate in meaningful activities encouraging conservation, stewardship and experiential learning on the second Saturday of every month (excluding January and July). Volunteer tasks include trail building and maintenance, Invasive Plant Eradication, Habitat Restoration and other activities needed to manage the facility and grounds of this unique urban resource!
Mobile Food Distribution
Thursday, September 19, 2019 From 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Atlanta, West End)
Southwest Ecumenical Emergency Assistance Center (SWEEAC) provides assistance to southwest Atlanta residents in the form of monthly food distribution. SWEEAC serves more than 48,000 families & distributes over 1,000,000 pounds of food to the families in Atlanta. Volunteers provide the agency with much needed resources that allow the agency to complete their mission in a cost efficient and orderly manner. Volunteer tasks include set up and breakdown of distribution area, unpacking and organizing food to be distributed, bagging or boxing of food for recipients and assist recipients to their vehicle or help them carry food.
Beautiful Bounty: Market Prep Support - Collegetown Farm
Friday, September 20, 2019 From 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM (Atlanta, West End)
Truly Living Well (TLW) works to engage the community in developing local food systems and demonstrating urban agriculture as a sustainable solution for helping people to eat and live better. It is our mission to grow better communities by connecting people with the land through education and training. Market prep volunteers will be working together to complete market preparation tasks in order to create a beautiful experience for market attendees. Tasks may include: Harvest, weigh, and bundle produce for farmer's markets. Gathering and loading supplies Assist with signage (good penmanship/artistry for chalk signs) Assist with other farm projects as needed.
Buckhead CHaRM Day
Saturday, September 14, 2019 From 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM (Fairburn)
CHaRM stands for The Center for Hard to Recycle Materials. It is a permanent drop-off facility that aims to improve our environmental health by encouraging reuse and diverting thousands of pounds of household hazardous waste, bulky trash and other hard to recycle items from Metro-Atlanta landfills and water systems. Volunteers are needed to help with the monthly CHaRM drop off day for Buckhead residents. You will assist attendees with their recyables and direct traffic.
Hot Projects: Week of September 2
Check out this week’s Hot Projects that include awesome volunteer opportunities with West Atlanta Watershed Alliance, Open Hand and Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta.
2019 Atlanta Meal Pack for 9/11 Day: PROJECT SUPPORT
Wednesday September 11 From 12:00 PM - 6:30 PM and 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Downtown)
Hands On Atlanta was selected to support the 9/11 Day of Service for a HUGE 300,000 meal pack project at the College Football Hall of Fame! Atlanta is one of 8 cities being activated, with a total goal of 3,000,000 meals and 12,000+ volunteers. Hands On Atlanta is leading efforts on the ground with operations and logistics, and are in need of task leaders to help pull it off. Tasks will include: Running the registration table, meal pack table captains, heavy lifters to move boxes back and forth, runners, etc.
West Atlanta Watershed Alliance 2nd Service Saturdays
Saturday September 14 From 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM (Southwest Atlanta)
This program facilitated provides the opportunity for youth 10 years and older to participate in meaningful activities encouraging conservation, stewardship and experiential learning on the second Saturday of every month (excluding January and July). Volunteer tasks include trail building and maintenance, Invasive Plant Eradication, Habitat Restoration and other activities needed to manage the facility and grounds of this unique urban resource!
Open Hand Meal Delivery
Saturday September 14 From 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM (Lindbergh)
Open Hand helps homebound seniors and others suffering from disability or chronic disease by providing Comprehensive Nutrition Care™(CNC), a combination of nutritious, home-delivered meals, and nutrition education. Open Hand prepares, packages, and delivers 5,000 nutritionally-appropriate meals a day, six days a week with the support of volunteers. Volunteer drivers are a critical part of the service Open Hand provides to the community, since a majority of the organization’s clients are homebound. In fact, a volunteer driver is quite often the only person a client may see on any given day. Volunteers will pick-up meals, deliver meals to clients using their own vehicles and gas, and return the delivery list and delivery bags back to the Open Hand site.
Leadership Conference Volunteers
Wednesday September 11 - Saturday September 14th, Various Shifts From 6:30 AM - 5:00 PM (Duluth)
The 5 proven Outcomes of the Girl Scout Leadership Experience: Health Relationships, Strong Sense of Self, Positive Values, Challenge Seeking, and Community Problem Solving. Spend a day coming together with Girl Scout Volunteers at our 6th Annual Volunteer Leadership Conference! This team requires a friendly and helpful attitude. Setup volunteers will help us get prepped and ready for this awesome event. Event volunteers will act as session monitors and greeters/ushers throughout the day - help with speakers and hand-outs in workshop sessions, assist in games and prize area and assist attendees in navigating the Infinite Energy Center throughout the day.
Margie’s House Monthly Giveaway
Saturday, September 14, 2019 From 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM (Fairburn)
Margie’s House mission is to bring food and assistance to the communities around South Fulton. Join us in our monthly food distribution! Food sorters will be responsible for removing food off trucks as well as organizing, sorting, and packing food in bags. Volunteers will ensure the quality of the food, provide the quantity of food to each client as instructed and break down the boxes in which the food was delivered. Other jobs that may be required include taking out trash, assist clients with carrying food to their transportation, set up, break down and clean up.
Week of August 26
Check out this week’s Hot Projects that include awesome volunteer opportunities with Discovery, Piedmont Park Conservancy and Open Hand.
Hands On Atlanta: Discovery Orientation
Wednesday August 28 From 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM or 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM and Saturday September 7 from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Westside)
Discovery is a Saturday morning enrichment program, which offers S.T.E.A.M, fitness, health, and social-emotional learning activities to Atlanta's (K-5) youth while engaging volunteers in meaningful service experiences. Volunteers interact with students in a fun and structured environment and help them gain new skills and visualize brighter futures. Individuals can volunteer as a general volunteer, grade captain, school captain, or session lead.
C3 Ministries’ Food Pantry Distribution
Thursday August 29 From 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM, 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM and 3:30 PM - 3:30 (Marietta)
The mission at C3 Ministries is to provide resources of four various ministries in order that families can become whole, independant and ultimately able to return to serve others. Serving over 250 families every Thursday and over 471,508 pounds of food this year, we are greatly impacting our communities and with your help, we can continue to be more successful in making an impact in our community. Give back to your community while having fun and meeting new friends, while re-stocking food shelves, loading boxes with food items and assisting in expediting boxes to attendees vehicles.
Open Hand Client Meal Packing
Various Days 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM & 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Lindbergh)
Open Hand’s mission: We cook. We deliver. We teach. We care. Vision: Open Hand seeks to eliminate disability and untimely death due to nutrition-sensitive chronic disease. Purpose: Open Hand serves our community by empowering people to live healthier, more productive lives. Packing involves portioning food into individual containers and snack bags on our packing assembly line. With over 5,000 meals to package every day, your help is essential. This is a great project for individuals and families, and a great team-building exercise for school, business and church groups!
Green Market - Connecting communities & supporting local farmers!
Saturday August 31 From 7:00 AM - 2:00 PM (Midtown)
Have fun volunteering while enjoying the fresh air, learning about locally grown produce and listening to live music! Green Market volunteers play an important role in supporting healthy lifestyles and encouraging sustainable communities. Our Green Market encourages sustainable communities in the most basic way – by providing shoppers with direct access to local farmers and merchants. Volunteers will primarily assist vendors with unloading their vehicles, general clean-up; market set-up and market break down. Volunteers may also lend a hand at the Green Market Information booth and our Education Garden.
2019 Atlanta Meal Pack for 9/11 Day: PROJECT SUPPORT
Wednesday September 11 From 7:30 AM - 1:30 PM and 12:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Hands On Atlanta was selected to support the 9/11 Day of Service for a HUGE 300,000 meal pack project at the College Football Hall of Fame! Atlanta is one of 8 cities being activated, with a total goal of 3,000,000 meals and 12,000+ volunteers. Hands On Atlanta is leading efforts on the ground with operations and logistics, and are in need of task leaders to help pull it off. Tasks will include: Running the registration table, meal pack table captains, heavy lifters to move boxes back and forth, runners, etc.
Hot Projects: Week of August 19
Check out this week’s Hot Projects that include awesome volunteer opportunities with Wylde Center, InCommunity and Open Hand.
Safe at Home Game presented by L.E.A.D., Inc. and APIVEO
Saturday August 24 From 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (West Atlanta)
For the 5th consecutive year, Atlanta’s kids and cops will compete on the baseball diamond and lead Atlanta communities in goodwill and fellowship. Its purpose is to create an environment of competition, trust and respect between two communities who often struggle to find common ground and to open lines of communication so often searching for a connection. We are looking for volunteers to volunteer in a unique and unconventional way. We need you to come out and “S.I.T. and Serve” at the Safe at Home Game. S.I.T. stands for Simple, Intentional and Transformative.
Plant Sale Support
Tuesday August 27 From 3:00 AM - 6:00 PM (Decatur)
The Wylde Center's mission is to cultivate vibrant greenspaces and inspire communities of environmental stewards. The Wylde Center actively engages youth, families, and individuals in their environment, health, and community through organized programs, classes, and events that develop creative skills in sustainable urban living, organic gardening, health and nutrition. Our annual plant sale offers many unique opportunities for digging in the dirt. We do everything from watering to transplanting to weeding.
Open Hand Client Meal Packing
Various Days 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM & 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Lindbergh)
Open Hand’s mission: We cook. We deliver. We teach. We care. Vision: Open Hand seeks to eliminate disability and untimely death due to nutrition-sensitive chronic disease. Purpose: Open Hand serves our community by empowering people to live healthier, more productive lives. Packing involves portioning food into individual containers and snack bags on our packing assembly line. With over 5,000 meals to package every day, your help is essential. This is a great project for individuals and families, and a great team-building exercise for school, business and church groups!
Arts and Crafts with InCommunity
Friday August 30 From 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (College Park)
At InCommunity we partner to enrich and sustain the lives of individuals who have developmental disabilities, their families, and their communities. This volunteer opportunity helps the InCommunity Organization carry out its mission by bringing awareness within the community of the mentally disabled and bringing a sense of normalcy for our individuals that are treated differently. Volunteers will help the Individuals of InCommunity create caterpillars out of construction paper and read books together.
2019 Atlanta Meal Pack for 9/11 Day: PROJECT SUPPORT
Wednesday September 11 From 7:30 AM - 1:30 PM and 12:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Hands On Atlanta was selected to support the 9/11 Day of Service for a HUGE 300,000 meal pack project at the College Football Hall of Fame! Atlanta is one of 8 cities being activated, with a total goal of 3,000,000 meals and 12,000+ volunteers. Hands On Atlanta is leading efforts on the ground with operations and logistics, and are in need of task leaders to help pull it off. Tasks will include: Running the registration table, meal pack table captains, heavy lifters to move boxes back and forth, runners, etc.
Hot Projects: Week of August 12
Check out this week’s Hot Projects that include awesome volunteer opportunities with Partners In Action for Healthy Living, Livable Buckhead and more!
TeamWorks! Kickoff
Saturday August 17 From 9:45 AM - 12:00 PM (NW Atlanta)
Hands On Atlanta TeamWorks! is a program that betters metro-Atlanta through meaningful service projects. It’s a program that affords you the opportunities to make a difference in the lives of others and our communities, and to develop friendships with your fellow volunteers along the way. It’s an opportunity to challenge yourself and get involved! Kick-off is an orientation - a chance for volunteers to meet, form teams, and learn about the projects planned for that round. We are switching up this round and adding a mini-service project that will benefit one of our nonprofit partners. For five to six Saturdays after the kick-off, teams compete to have the highest turnout at service projects that impact a variety of causes and communities throughout Greater Atlanta.
Boys and Girls Club at Peachcrest Learning Garden Community Work Day
Saturday August 17 From 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Decatur)
Partners in Action is installing a learning garden at The Boys and Girls Club at Peachcrest right across the street from Peachcrest Elementary. The garden allows children at the club to learn how to grow food from seed to market and learn leadership skills along the way. We prepare food in their wonderful kitchen and give lessons on nutrition and plant-based food. Join us as we help maintain this great resource that will benefit the students through hands on learning in the garden. Green thumbs not necessary. The garden not only serves as a learning garden but it will create healthier communities by inspiring young people, parents and community members to grow food for healthier bodies and to decrease food insecurity. We will finish the herb garden, remove invasives along the border fence, plant additional pollinator plants and weed the beds if necessary.
Loridans Park - Invasive Species
Saturday, August 17, 2019 From 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM (Buckhead)
Loridans Park is one of City of Atlanta's newest parks and is the beginning stages of becoming a valuable greenspace for the community. On August 17th, Livable Buckhead and the North Buckhead Civic Association are teaming up with our friends at Trees Atlanta to lead a community workshop focused on the targeted identification of a variety of common Invasive Plant Species of the Georgia Piedmont region, as well as efficient removal methods of those plants. The main objective of this workshop is to empower the community group to take on invasive plant removal projects in their local greenspace with the auxiliary goal of educating individuals about invasive plants that may be present in their own yards and landscapes. We invite you, your families, neighbors and groups interested in making an impact to attend!
Serving Seniors at A.G. Rhodes Health & Rehab Cobb
Saturday August 24 From 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (West Atlanta)
For the 5th consecutive year, Atlanta’s kids and cops will compete on the baseball diamond and lead Atlanta communities in goodwill and fellowship. Its purpose is to create an environment of competition, trust and respect between two communities who often struggle to find common ground and to open lines of communication so often searching for a connection. We are looking for volunteers to volunteer in a unique and unconventional way. We need you to come out and “S.I.T. and Serve” at the Safe at Home Game. S.I.T. stands for Simple, Intentional and Transformative.
2019 Atlanta Meal Pack for 9/11 Day: PROJECT SUPPORT
Wednesday September 11 From 7:30 AM - 1:30 PM and 12:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Hands On Atlanta was selected to support the 9/11 Day of Service for a HUGE 300,000 meal pack project at the College Football Hall of Fame! Atlanta is one of 8 cities being activated, with a total goal of 3,000,000 meals and 12,000+ volunteers. Hands On Atlanta is leading efforts on the ground with operations and logistics, and are in need of task leaders to help pull it off. Tasks will include: Running the registration table, meal pack table captains, heavy lifters to move boxes back and forth, runners, etc.
Hot Projects: Week of August 5
Check out this week’s Hot Projects that include awesome volunteer opportunities with West Atlanta Watershed Alliance, A.G. Rhodes, Livable Buckhead and more!
West Atlanta Watershed Alliance 2nd Service Saturdays
Saturday August 10 From 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM (SW Atlanta)
The West Atlanta Watershed Alliance (WAWA) is a community-based non-profit organization whose mission is to improve the quality of life within the West Atlanta Watershed by protecting, preserving and restoring our community’s natural resources. This project provides an opportunity for youth 10 years and older to participate in meaningful activities encouraging conservation, stewardship and experiential learning on the second Saturday of every month. Tasks include trail building and maintenance, invasive plant eradication, habitat restoration and other activities needed to manage the facility and grounds of this unique urban resource!
Grief Support- Clubhouse Support Team
Sunday August 11 From 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM and 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM (Brookhaven)
Kate's Club empowers children and teens facing life after the death of a parent or sibling by offering social, recreational and therapeutic activities to help kids wherever they are in their grief journey. Kate’s Club does this through Art Therapists, Play Therapist, Music therapists, Circus artists, song writing, games and much more to help our members express themselves in an emotionally and physically safe environment. Join us on the weekends, helping provide structure and supervision for our afternoon programming. You will provide hands on support, engaging with our kids. This is a perfect volunteer opportunity to see first-hand what we do and how we do it.
Loridans Park - Invasive Species
Saturday, August 17, 2019 From 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM (Buckhead)
Loridans Park is one of City of Atlanta's newest parks and is the beginning stages of becoming a valuable greenspace for the community. On August 17th, Livable Buckhead and the North Buckhead Civic Association are teaming up with our friends at Trees Atlanta to lead a community workshop focused on the targeted identification of a variety of common Invasive Plant Species of the Georgia Piedmont region, as well as efficient removal methods of those plants. The main objective of this workshop is to empower the community group to take on invasive plant removal projects in their local greenspace with the auxiliary goal of educating individuals about invasive plants that may be present in their own yards and landscapes. We invite you, your families, neighbors and groups interested in making an impact to attend!
Serving Seniors at A.G. Rhodes Health & Rehab Cobb
Saturday, August 17, 2019 From 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM (Marietta)
A.G. Rhodes Health & Rehab provides expert and compassionate rehabilitation therapy and residential care to seniors in metro Atlanta. Our family of caregivers greets each day – and each resident – with enthusiasm and compassion, proudly upholding a legacy of offering a healing, home-like atmosphere. Volunteers are integral to the happiness and well-being of our residents. We could not provide the variety of meaningful activities and programs we do without the time and talents of our volunteers. Volunteers will provide a variety of enrichment and therapeutic activities for our residents including BINGO, arts & crafts, holiday projects, games, parties & socials, and group visitations.
2019 Atlanta Meal Pack for 9/11 Day: PROJECT SUPPORT
Wednesday September 11 From 7:30 AM - 1:30 PM and 12:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Hands On Atlanta was selected to support the 9/11 Day of Service for a HUGE 300,000 meal pack project at the College Football Hall of Fame! Atlanta is one of 8 cities being activated, with a total goal of 3,000,000 meals and 12,000+ volunteers. Hands On Atlanta is leading efforts on the ground with operations and logistics, and are in need of task leaders to help pull it off. Tasks will include: Running the registration table, meal pack table captains, heavy lifters to move boxes back and forth, runners, etc.